Waving a white flag and leading four bannermen to his own soldiers, under the gaze of the Jingzhou defenders and the Wu army's water and land soldiers, Duolonga slowly walked to the public security gate at the southeast gate of Jingzhou's Mancheng, loudly identified his identity, and loudly explained his intention - to rebel for the world, the generalissimo of the king of Qin, Wu Chaoyue, handed the traffic to the Jingzhou general Mianxun. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although Wang Funian, the commander of the Wu Army's Western Expedition, had repeatedly reminded him that this task was very dangerous, even if Duolonga was a banner man, he might be executed as a traitor by the Jingzhou Eight Banners garrison, but Duolonga still insisted on coming, and said directly to Wang Fu: "Although I am a tiger fighter, I am also a banner man, and Manchurian is a white flag person, and no one can change this." ”

"At this time, I feel really uncomfortable when I am asked to stand in the ranks of the Han people and fight the people, so I must go in, stand with our banner people, see with your own eyes how you treat the flag people, and try my best to persuade the banner people in Jingzhou City not to use their arms as a car and accept the surrender of Wu Zhitai."

Wang Fu saw the pain in his heart from Duolong'a's blank gaze, and he also understood and understood this pain, so Wang Fu didn't ask the soldiers to use force to force Duolong'a to stay, but just said again, "Auditorium, if you must go in, I won't stop you." But I must remind you of two things, one is that there are no eyes on the battlefield, especially the cannons; The second is that the situation in Jingzhou is much more complicated than you think, and I am afraid that even if our soldiers can show mercy to your men, the Han people in Jingzhou City will not let you go. So, you have to think about it. ”

"I know that the sword and gun have no eyes, and even if I die under your guns, I will never blame you." Duolonga replied calmly, and asked suspiciously: "Are you worried that the Han people in Jingzhou City will not let me go?" Why? ”

"Auditorium, you have never been to Jingzhou, and you definitely don't know how much the Han people here hate the Manchurians." Wang Fu said with a wry smile: "I have an uncle who used to do business in Jingzhou for a few years, and he told me about Jingzhou, in Jingzhou City, Han people can shout on the street to beat thieves and kill thieves, Han people and Manchus fight for three days, and there can be murders every year, and the Han people in Jingzhou hate Manchurians to the bone!" If we are really forced to open fire on the city this time, it is estimated that the Han people in Jingzhou Xicheng will definitely not miss such an opportunity for revenge. ”

"Why do the Han people in Jingzhou hate the Manchurians so much?" Dorona asked, confused.

"The Manchus here bully the Han people too much, and the magistrates often favor the Manchus, so of course the Han people hate it." Wang Fu replied truthfully.

Duolonga did not believe that the contradiction between the Han and Manchus in Jingzhou could be so serious, and he did not listen to Wang Fu's repeated kind persuasion, so he insisted on coming to Jingzhou City and asked to enter the city. Fortunately, relying on the identity of the Zhengbai Banner Bannerman, Duolonga and his Hu'er soldiers quickly entered the city of Jingzhou, and were soon led to the elderly Jingzhou General Mianxun.

"Anti-thief! Wu surpasses this anti-thief! When the dog thief came to Jingzhou, the old man thought that his thief's eyebrows and mouse eyes were not a good thing, and today he was really expected by the old man! Regret, regret, why didn't the old man personally cut him down in the first place, leaving this scourge to the court? Anti-thief! Dog brute! Dog brute! Anti-thief! ”

After scolding Wu Chaoyue for a long time, Mianxun remembered to ask Duolonga why he was able to come here, and Duolonga replied truthfully: "Wu Chaoyue asked me to stay with him to help, but I refused. So the last general is here, hoping to help you in some way, the old general. ”

"Loyal Minister!" Mianxun was so moved that he wanted to cry, wiped the corners of his eyes and said: "At the critical moment, we are the most reliable, or we are the most reliable." Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask, General Duo, are you the surname of the white flag? What is a priesthood? ”

"Back to the Mianjun Gate, the last general is the Huerlat clan, who has no secular position, and is admitted to the forward battalion by riding and shooting." Dorona replied.

Duolong's truthful answer disappointed Mianxun, and said with some regret: "It turned out to be a tiger fighter, but it's okay, it's more reliable than the Han barbarians, and more loyal than those dog barbarians." ”

couldn't stand Mianxun's chatter, and the deputy of Mianxun next to him, Xiling'a, the left deputy commander of the Jingzhou garrison, took over the conversation and quickly asked Duolong'a: "General Duo, how many thieves have Wu Chaoyue sent?" Who is the commander of the army? ”

"There are five battalions of the water division, 2,500 people, and the main general is Wang Fu, who is also the commander of the whole army." Duolonga was not polite, and immediately replied: "There are three thousand other infantry, and the main ones will be Li Xubin and Li Xuyi." ”

"Five thousand five hundred." Xiling Ah breathed a sigh of relief, and said with some joy: "Fortunately, the number of thieves is not too much, and we hope to be able to hold it." ”

"General Xi, don't underestimate this army." Duolonga hurriedly warned: "Among the infantry sent by Wu Chaoyue, two battalions are equipped with rapid-fire foreign guns, and their combat effectiveness is very strong. The sailors were even more terrifying, the two steamers and the two sail warships alone were equipped with more than 140 guns, and all of them were heavy artillery of foreigners. ”

"One hundred and forty guns is remarkable?" Xiling'a sneered and said proudly: "We also have artillery in the city, and the anti-thief fleet really dares to get close to the city wall, and it will take less than three hours to sink them all." ”

"General Xi, Wu Chaoyue's warship is equipped with foreign heavy artillery, and the power of artillery fire is not at the same level as our Qing artillery." Duolonga hurriedly reminded Xilinga not to underestimate the enemy, and then said: "In my opinion, you might as well think about ......." ”

"Alright, no more need." Xiling'a rudely interrupted Duolong'a, turned to Mianxun next to him, and said: "Old General Mian, since General Duo has returned loyally and has been on the battlefield and has combat experience, you might as well let him lead a banner army to help guard the partition wall in the city and prevent the Han barbarians from making trouble." ”

Mianxun, who was not very relieved about Duolonga, immediately agreed, and told Duolonga: "General Duo, don't be soft on those dog barbarians, as long as they dare to take the opportunity to make trouble, kill them immediately!" Kill! ”

Duolong'a, who had never been to Jingzhou, didn't know what a partition wall was, and when he asked about the situation, he learned that a separation wall slightly shorter than the city wall was built between the east and west cities of Jingzhou City, which was specially used to isolate the Han people in Jingzhou City. After receiving the news of the changes in the provincial capital, Jingzhou generals such as Mianxun and Xiling'a also immediately strengthened the defense of the separation wall and specially arranged an army to guard it.

Out of loyalty to the Manchu court, Duolonga proposed to stay on the front line to serve as staff officers for Mianxun and Xiling'a, but Mianxun and Xiling'a were not at ease with Duolong'a, who had just returned from Wu Chaoyue's side anyway, and insisted on sending Duolong'a to a walled position that was easy to guard. Duolong'a had no choice but to agree, and immediately under Xiling's arrangement, he led his four tiger-fighting soldiers to report to the wall position and accept the establishment and assignment.

As soon as they reached the top of the wall, Dorona and his men were startled by the sight on the west side of the wall—a large number of houses on the west side of the wall had been razed to the ground, and the ruins were littered with corpses, men, women, and children, as if they had already experienced war. Duolong Ah Daqi hurriedly asked the Jingzhou banner soldiers who led the way: "What's wrong?" How is this here? ”

"General Mian Lao They were afraid that the Han barbarians would take advantage of the chaos to attack the city, so they ordered the houses near the partition wall to be pushed first, and the Han barbarians who lived here resisted, so that's it."

The understatement of the Jingzhou banner soldiers made Duolong'a completely speechless, and he didn't understand whether Mianxun and Xiling'a and the others were in the water in their heads or overreacting-the situation was already so critical, and they were still so oppressive and brutal to kill the Han people who lived in the same city?

When he was led to Sabintu, the assistant leader of the Jingzhou garrison who was in charge of guarding the partition wall, Sabintu handed over to him a new army that had just been formed by idle bannermen, and even said to him: "Don't be soft, when you see the Han barbarians approaching the partition wall, you will immediately shoot and shoot arrows, kill as many as you want!" ”

Looking at the dense Han people on the street in the distance, seeing that most of them were sitting on the ground in ragged clothes with large and small packages, it seemed that they were the people in the city whose houses had been destroyed, Duolonga asked with some doubts: "Kill if you get close?" What if they want to go home and get something? ”

"Kill it right!" Sabintu blurted out an answer without thinking about it, and patted Duolong'a on the shoulder and said: "You just came to Jingzhou, I don't know how hateful these dog barbarians in Jingzhou are, but it doesn't matter, stay a few more days and you will know everything." ”

Duolonga didn't know how hateful the Han people in Jingzhou City were, and when they were stationed on the partition wall that day, Duolonga just saw it with his own eyes, and as soon as the flag soldiers on the partition wall saw the Han people approaching the partition wall, they immediately shot and killed people. Duolonga also heard gunshots coming from the Xicheng side of Jingzhou from time to time, and when he asked why, he learned that it was the soldiers of the Eight Banners guarding the Xicheng who were shooting and killing the Han people who tried to get close to the city gate or city wall. Duolonga was helpless about this, and only then did he realize that Wang Fu's warning was by no means intimidation - after the city was broken, even if the soldiers of the Wu army would show mercy to their subordinates, the Han people in Jingzhou City would definitely not let him go.

At nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, seeing that the Eight Banners army in Jingzhou City had not yet surrendered to the city after the deadline of the ultimatum, the four main warships of the Wu Army's naval division, Zeng Guofan, Huashana, Loyalty, and Renyi, sailed directly to the water surface of the Yangtze River south of Jingzhou Mancheng, preparing to bombard Jingzhou Mancheng with artillery fire. At the same time, the Li Xubin brothers also led 3,000 Wu infantry to attack the Ballast Gate directly east of Jingzhou, preparing to launch an attack.

However, even so, Wang Fu, the commander of Wu's Western Expedition, still gave the Jingzhou Eight Banners garrison one last chance, and once again sent an envoy to the public security gate to surrender under the white flag, demanding that the Mancheng garrison immediately open the city and surrender. However, it was the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the city wall who shot at the envoys of the Wu army, and the artillery on the city preemptively bombarded the warships of the Wu army.

Benevolence and righteousness have reached this point, and the Eight Banners garrison in Jingzhou still didn't appreciate it, and dared to take the initiative to fire the Wu army's sailors who were strong in ships and guns. Under the anger, Wang Fu no longer hesitated, and immediately shouted: "Hit the flag, fire!" ”

The new flagship of the Wu Army's naval division, Zeng Guofan, was the first to fire the cannon, firing the first shot of the Wu army's liquidation of the remnants of the Manchu Qing forces in the territory, and the first shell that flew out of the whistle also accurately hit the city tower of the Gong'an Gate, and the small half of the city tower was still castrated, and then bombarded into the city, directly knocking down the roof of a family full of people.

They never thought that the artillery power of the Wu Junshui Division could be so terrifying, and of course the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the Jingzhou city wall were constantly screaming and shouting, but they also quickly found that this was just the beginning, and the real hell was still to come. Because, the other three main warships of the Wu Army's naval division also opened fire one after another.

In the earth-shattering explosion, the four main warships of the Wu army fired their cannons continuously in the pendulum method, and at the rhythm of four shells per minute, they continued to bombard the 32-pound solid cannonballs into the city of Jingzhou, and hit the head of the city.

What is even more terrifying is still to come, in the interval of artillery bombardment, the Wu army's naval division also used improved Congreve rockets to bombard the city, Congreve rockets carrying picric acid explosives flew into the city and exploded, and the houses and courtyards that the Manchu Qing bannermen forcibly snatched from the Han people more than 200 years ago also quickly burst into flames, the fire was raging, the water could not be extinguished, and the smoke rose to the sky for dozens of feet.

Under the command of the Li Xubin brothers, the Wu army's artillery focused on the famous Binyang Tower on the Ballast Gate, while constantly bombarding the city with Congreve rockets, using the burning properties of picric acid to set fire to the enemy, even if they had not launched a forced attack, they had already bombarded the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the city wall and in the city.

It was also at this time that Xi Ling'a, who was actually in charge of the defense of Jingzhou, finally knew that Duolong'a's warning was not alarmist, and the power of Wu's heavy artillery was something he didn't dare to imagine. But even so, Xi Ling'a was most worried about the situation of the Han people in Jingzhou on the Xicheng side, worried that the Han barbarians over there would take the opportunity to make trouble and take the Wu army into the city.

Facts have proved that Xiling'a is just worrying in vain, although the Han people in Xicheng are looking forward to the Wu army coming in as soon as possible, but they know that it is difficult to kill the soldiers of the Eight Banners guarding the six gates of Jingzhou and open the city gate to welcome their relatives into the city with only the rudimentary weapons in their hands with kitchen knives and wooden sticks as the main force. Therefore, the people of Xicheng are all waiting patiently, cautiously waiting for the opportunity to appear.

The fierce artillery fire continued until noon, and the four main warships of the Wu army cruised unhurriedly on the river, constantly bombarding the city of Jingzhou with their gunwales in turn, so that the soldiers of the Eight Banners had almost no foothold in the city. At the same time, the infantry of the Wu army also successfully blew open the ballast gate with picric acid explosives and attacked the urn city of the ballast gate, forcing Xi Ling'a to quickly order to block the city gate and prevent the Wu army from having a chance to directly enter the city from the city gate.

In order to show their loyalty, the Li Xubin brothers, who joined Wu Chaoyue's first battle, found that the soldiers of the Eight Banners blocked the city gate, so they immediately changed the siege tactics and sent two hundred death squads to attack the walls of the Ballast City Gate with flying ladders.

As a result, it was also at this time that the face of the paper tiger with loose armaments of the Jingzhou Eight Banners garrison was soon exposed, and seeing the Wu army death squad carrying a bright steel knife to attack the city wall, the banner soldiers in the city except for shooting with primitive arquebuses and guns, no one dared to stand in front of the flying ladder and fight with the Wu soldiers to prevent the Wu soldiers from landing on the city. And when a few Wu army warriors and Li Xuyi brandished a big knife and successfully rushed to the city wall, it was equivalent to a tiger rushing into the flock, how to cut how to cut, how to kill, how to kill, three days two heads and Jingzhou Han people to fight in a group of warriors no longer have the majesty of the street fight, shouting and just scattering to flee for their lives, Wu army death squad took the opportunity to rush up the city wall endlessly, did not spend much effort to occupy a rather small city position, the Wu Junchun red flag that was only hurriedly made three days ago was inserted on the head of the Ballast Gate.

At the same time, among the countless dwellings in the west city of Jingzhou, countless Han people are holding all kinds of rudimentary weapons and watching nervously, whispering, "Listen to the voice, it seems that we are about to enter the city of thieves, just wait for the city of thieves to break, we will kill out, kill all the thieves, and take revenge!" ”

"Lord Wu's army is about to enter the city of thieves, I can't wait."

PS: Don't think the plot of this chapter is exaggerated, during the First Opium War, General Hailing, the commander of Zhenjiang, who was praised as a patriotic general by the Qing Dynasty before and after, believed that when the British army attacked Zhenjiang, the Han people in the city would definitely attack the Eight Banners warriors from behind, so he led the Eight Banners warriors to kill in Zhenjiang City and wantonly slaughter the Han people. (To be continued.) )